How to encode URL using php like browsers do

browser, php, url, urlencode

Solution

So, the other answers here have largely ignored your post, it seems. Let's hope I have not done the same.

It seems to me that you only want to encode the basename? If that is true, this ad-hoc function should do the trick:

function encode_basename($url) {
    $url = explode('/', $url);
    $base = array_pop($url);

    return implode('/', $url) . '/' . urlencode($base);
}
//returns: http://www.example.com/Data/image/office-d%25C3%25B4n-s%25C3%25AC-%25C3%25A0.jpg

Problem

I have an URL like this ``` http://www.example.com/Data/image/office-dôn-sì-à.jpg ``` I want to copy that file to my server using copy function in php. So the first thing is to encode it to this (I think browsers do the same thing) ``` http://www.example.com/Data/image/office-d%C3%B4n-s%C3%AC-%C3%A0.jpg ``` But if I use function urlencode, full url will be encoded to ``` http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2FData%2Fimage%2Foffice-d%C3%B4n-s%C3%AC-%C3%A0.jpg ``` which is not an URL anymore and not what I want. Any help?

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